Case Western Reserve University - Lux / Differential Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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To this task I now pledge to you and to this city my undivided thought and effort, in the assurance that when the moment offers, trustees and faculties, alumni and students of Western Reserve will all be ready in their places for a larger future, a future too in every way in keeping with an honorable past, and equally responsible to the call of the new order. 20

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' ■ s« COMMENCEMENT-I924 The thirty-ninth Commencement of Western Reserve University and the ninety-eiglith Connnencement of Adelbert College was held in the Adelbert gymnasium, June twelfth, 1924. William Oxley Thompson, D. D., LL. D., President of Ohio State University, delivered the address of the day. President Robert E. Vinson presided over the ceremonies, and the Very Reverend Francis S. ' hite, D. D.. Dean of Trinity Cathedral, gave the invocation. President Vinson conferred the degree of Bachelor of Arts u[Jon one hundred and twenty- two graduates of Adelbert College. At the same time forty-two degrees were conferred upon graduates of the Medical School. Fifty-one graduates of the Franklin T. P)ackus I w School were given degrees, while forty-six degrees were accorded Dental School gradu. ' ites. and thirty- two to graduates of the School of Pharmacy. At the College for Women exercises held the previous day, one hundred and forty-two degrees were conferred upon young women graduates. The honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, LL. D.. was conferred upon President W. C). Thompson of Ohio State University, and upon President Charles S. Howe, Ph. D., of Case School of Applied Science. Commencement honors were given in the following order : Arthur E. Petersilge, first : Harry Joseph Kumin, second ; and Depew Cameron Freer, third. It is interesting to note that thirteen graduates were elected into membership in the Alpha of Ohio of Phi Beta Kappa, the national honorary schola.stic fraternity. The three men highest in scholarship in the Junior class were also elected to membership. At the College for Women four girls were elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Twenty-eight men in Adelbert College were awarded a total of forly-one prizes. Eight men took the ten two-year honors. The Harriet Pelton Perkins scholarship was won by Edward Jacquet and Donald Oviatt. These same men also took the Holden Essay prizes. The Early Jinglish Text Society prize was awarded to ' alter Bauer, Three debate prizes and three Rupert Hughes prizes in poetry were also awarded. The Louise Gehring Marshall prize in natural history went to Xewton Jones : The Ritter Commercial Trust prize in athletics to John Coss. In the awarding of the President ' s Prizes, Henry Kutash was the out ianding figure, re- ceiving four from a possible seven. Three second prizes were also accorded. Prizes for the Junior-Sophomore Oratorical contest and the Senior-Junior Extempore Speaking contest were awarded at the same time. 19

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The . Iciidcmic I ' roci ' ssion Lctn Adelhert Steps. the THE INAUGURATION By Wkn ' dki.i. A. 1 ' i..s(;k.m- The dawn of a lU ' w epoch in the history of an in tiiiiiion is seldom heralded by an event more auspicions. more prophetic for the future, and more genuinely en- couraging to those who lia ' r tri en hard in the can e and have dared to hope, than ihat which (jccurrcd in tlu ' Adelhert College Gymnasium on October 9, 1924. ' I ' lu ' commitments made on that occasion, the excellent pros- pects for the future which were revealed while Reserve stood on the threshold of her hundredth year, with all the myriad hallowed memories of the generations that are gone commingling with high visions for the years that are to come, have infused into the veins of the Univer- sity a magic elixir which has given a tremendous imjU ' tus to the certain forward movement. Six Presidents have come and gone in the long span of Reserve ' s existence. The inaugurations of our early Presidents were little inclined to ceremony; after very simple rites they as.sumed the duties of their office. The University, being small, did not attract the notice or demand the prominent place that it does today. Charles Backus Storrs simply became President — his inauguration consisting of the assumption of the bur- den of guiding the destinies of the little college. Rev. George Edmond Pierce, Rev. Henry Lawrence Hitchcock, and Rev. Carrol Cutler were installed with very plain services. Rev. Hiram Collins Haydn ' s inauguration was the first one to attract attention, as he was inaugurated in the Old Stone Church. The University had attained such a size and reputation by this time that it was fitting that the new President should be inaugurated with proper and dignified ceremonies. Rev. Charles Franklin Thwing entered the office with an elaborate reception. It was a red letter day in the history of the University. A large academic procession began the ceremonies. In those days the place in line was not determined by the academic ranking of the Dr. Livingston Farrand, President of Cornell , and Dr. James D. IVilliamson. Thru . unsh!)ic and .Shade l!ie Proce. sion U ' ends Its Way . ' Icross the Campus. 21